In 2025, Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica. For the AI InnoVision team, this was not a distant news story. It was home.
Alicia and Lorette Lyttle's father was Jamaican. They spent their summers on the island as children. Lorette has a home there today, along with a tour company and a farm. Eighty percent of the AI InnoVision team lives in Jamaica. When the hurricane hit, the decision was immediate: shut everything down. No calls. No business. Just one focus: making sure their people had what they needed to keep going, to find their families, and to start rebuilding.
That day revealed something. The impulse to show up was already there. What was missing was the infrastructure to do it at scale, and to stay beyond the crisis. So they built it. AI InnoVision Foundation was incorporated in October 2025, and the work began.
The foundation's primary mission is AI-powered workforce development: giving communities in transition the skills, tools, and knowledge to participate in and lead the economy being built around them. The Jamaica response reminded us that this work is urgent, it is personal, and it cannot wait.
We did not just show up for the crisis. We stayed for the recovery. And we are building the infrastructure to keep showing up, wherever we are needed.